Tony Baldry

Anthony Brian "Tony" Baldry (10 July 1950-) was the Conservative Party MP for Banbury from 9 June 1983 to 30 March 2015, succeeding Neil Marten and preceding Victoria Prentis.

Biography
Tony Baldry was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England in 1950, and he was actively involved in student politics before becoming a lawyer; he also served as a Colonel in the Sussex Yeomanry of the British Army from 1971 to 1991. During the October 1974 election, he served as the personal assistant to Margaret Thatcher, and he joined her private office after she became leader of the Conservative Party in 1975; he shared her political pro-Europeanism. He served in the House of Commons from 1983 to 2015 as the Conservative MP for Banbury, and he served as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food from 1995 to 1997 and as Second Church Estates Commissioner from 2010 to 2015.